Shrinking harvest spurs memories of a hungry China
China has lost more than 35,000 square kilometres of farmland. Last year alone, more than 2% of all farmland was lost. Farmers are losing their land to industrial parks and resorts. It is part of a
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The role of women in natural resource management: a thematic report
The thematic Report on ‘The Role of Women in Natural Resource Management’ highlights the role of women in preservation of plant species, flora and fauna and on their livelihood options. This report widens
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Analysis of rainfall in assessing drought using remote sensing & Geographical Information System - A case study of Gulbarga District in Karnataka
Rain is the only source of water on the earth and for conserving this precious resource, the base is the land. Shortage of rainfall coupled with its erratic distribution during rainy season causes severe
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Circumstantial and response attitudes of people affected with livestock depredation by leopards Panthera Pardus Linnaeus in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India
<p>Livestock depredation by carnivores has become an important hurdle in conservation of predators at the top of the food chain. To develop feasible recommendations to minimize this conflict, it is important
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The other side of the conservation coin
Of late, cattle herders of Merak and Sakteng have been looking for a solution to a new problem that they say could slowly threaten their livelihood. Yak and cattle herders in the remote dungkhag say that their pastureland is slowly shrinking after a huge portion of it was absorbed by the 650 sq km Sakteng wildlife sanctuary.
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Non-tribals grabbing tribal belt land
Unbridled illegal transfer of land ownership to non-tribals over a vast area under the South Kamrup (Guwahati) tribal belt in the past few years has posed a grave threat to the very existence of the
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Bt cotton helps Gujarat top in production
Mr Narendrabhai N. Limbasaya of Kotada Nayan village in Gujarat's Rajkot district has been growing cotton on 15 acres of land he owns for the last 7-8 years.
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Factory shut down for discharging waste water
The Henan provincial government shut down a paper factory found to have discharged polluted water into farmland. The Dongfeng Paper Factory in Xinxiang city's Fengquan district was discharging unprocessed
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Tata Steel to start work at Orissa plant in 3 months
Newswire18 / Bhubaneswar October 12, 2008, 0:44 IST Tata Steel is likely to start construction of its Rs 15,400 crore, 6 million tonnes (MT) steel plant at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district of Orissa in three months, a top company official said today.
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Irrigation hit hard for water crisis in Madaripur
Irrigation on 90000 hectares of land is being hampered in three upazilas of the Madaripur (Bangladesh) as the river Kumar has dried up at several points. Five lockgates of the canals remained
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No flood fears, says Met Dept as rains lash country
The Sri Lankan Meterological Department ruled out any possibility of floods as torrential rains lashed many parts of the country leaving many roads and large tracts of land under water. The
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Sea level rise: impact on major infrastructure, ecosystems and land along the Tamil Nadu coast
<p>This report concentrates on the impacts of sea level rise as a result of climate change on coastal infrastructure, ecosystems and land in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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DBS to build 25,000 affordable homes in A'bad in five years
City-based DBS Affordable Home Strategy Ltd. is set to create about 25,000 affordable home for the lower income groups in next five years, financial closure for which the developer has achieved with micro finance institutions and banks. At a project cost of Rs 2,000 crore, DBS aims to achieve large scale mass production of houses that are affordable and financed through savings and credit systems that are accessible to the lower income groups and bottom half of the socio - economic pyramid in different parts of Ahmedabad.
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Assessing long-term impacts of vulnerabilities on crop production due to climate change in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
<p>People living in different coastal areas of Bangladesh have been suffering from lack of food security.
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Asian forests: working for people and nature
The report highlights key concerns and presents recommendations on how to optimize the opportunities of forests in the region.
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Soon, clarity on norms for forestry clearances
Subhash Narayan The Union Cabinet is all set to bring clarity and finalise procedures for forestry clearance of projects that involve large-scale displacement of tribal population.
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A clarion call for organic farming
Experts discuss shrinking farmland, effects of pesticides at a seminar organised as part of Gandhi Utsav. Thiruvananthapuram: Agricultural scientists, farmers, doctors, environmentalists and bankers who participated in a seminar series organised here last week in connection with the ongoing Gandhi Utsav, highlighted the importance of organic farming as a sustainable method of agriculture. Th
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Agri Dept gets latest GPR system to test soil quality
Jind: The Agriculture Department is all set to go hi-tech with the introduction of the latest ground penetrating radar (GPR) system to test the quality of soil of cultivable and non-cultivable land. The department has pressed into service at least three vans to collect data regarding the soil to prepare a database about the nature of soil across the state.
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Lives on Lease
The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya